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Tranquility Tackles Founders’ Anxiety

  • Nov 25, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

After taking his online treatment for anxiety through an initial pilot, Joel Muise is now working with those at the coalface of anxiety—entrepreneurs—before launching TranquilityOnline to the general public in the new year.

TranquilityOnline aims

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Hotspot Expands into Ontario

  • Nov 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

HotSpot, the Fredericton company whose app allows for easy transportation payments, has established its first beachhead outside Atlantic Canada with a service for Peterborough, Ont.

The announcement Friday of a new service for metered and

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Bahr-Gedalia In WXN Hall of Fame

  • Nov 22, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, President and CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, has been named a Top 100 Award Winner in KPMG’s Women's Executive Network (WXN) 2018 Canada’s Most Powerful Women event. It is the fourth year in a row she has made the list and so has

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SIA Aims To Help Hospital in Haiti

  • Nov 21, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Bo Simango is $70,000 away from deploying new technology that could improve the efficiency, security and safety of a hospital in Haiti, a developing country still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake.

Simango is the Co-Founder and CEO of

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Dal Doubles Computer Science Women

  • Nov 21, 2018
  • Avery Mullen

Dalhousie University has doubled the number of women entering its computer science program, fulfilling a commitment it announced in 2017 in celebration of the university’s 200th anniversary.

Female enrolment numbers are now 144 percent higher than

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Panag To Be Sold for up to $27M

  • Nov 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Panag Pharma, which is making pain-relief products from natural compounds found in cannabis plants, has agreed to be bought for as much as $27 million by Ontario’s Tetra Bio-Pharma.

Based in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, Tetra is a

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17 Startups Tap Innovacorp Programs

  • Nov 20, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp has awarded a total of $725,000 to 17 different companies under its Accelerate Program and Start-Up Yard Cohorts.

The Nova Scotia Crown corporation last week revealed the winners of the two programs, which provide non-dilutive funding,

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BreatheSuite Preps 30-Person Test

  • Nov 19, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

BreatheSuite is about to launch a 30-person test of its new inhaler technology, whose purpose is to ensure people use common inhaler devices correctly.

BreatheSuite is a new company based in St. John’s that has developed software and hardware that

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Event for Tech Cos Keen to Expand in U.S.

  • Nov 19, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Fredericton's entrepreneurship hub Planet Hatch and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) have announced a lunch-and-learn event for scaling tech companies interested in learning how to scale and expand in the U.S.

In a panel format, expert

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Dal Hosts Techstars Startup Weekend

  • Nov 19, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

This weekend, Dalhousie’s entrepreneurship centre Launch Dal will host its annual Startup Weekend.

This event, the 13th, pledges to help entrepreneurs take steps toward creating a business, becoming a founder, and connecting with the right people

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CarbonCure Enters the Asian Market

  • Nov 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax CleanTech company, is moving into the Asian market with a strategic partnership with Pan-United Corp., the leading concrete and cement company in Singapore.

They announced the deal Sunday, saying the Singapore

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More Diversity in St. John’s Startups

  • Nov 18, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Genesis, the St. John’s startup house affiliated with Memorial University, has been on a mission to increase diversity among the companies it supports. And it’s generating some data that highlight its success.

For a few years, CEO Michelle Simms

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